Obama blocked all lethal defensive aid to Ukraine
Trump has reversed that policy and is providing lethal defensive aid ( euphemism for military weapons) to Ukraine so they can defend themselves.
Most effective form of aid is anti tank missiles.
This article is absolute and total bull shit.
The soldier has been provided with a very expensive night vision optical sighting device BY THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. He just needs a scope mount to integrate it onto his weapon .
The US military does not use Kalashnikov assault rifles so there are no AK-47/74 scope mounts in US inventory to ship to Ukraine on short notice.
However, very high quality AK scope mounts are available via the internet for less than a hundred bucks and decent quality ones go for thirty bucks so just order one.
The night optic is the expensive and unobtainium component - the mount is cheap and easy to order via internet.
To a certain extent this story totally validates President Trump’s concerns that hard earned American taxpayer dollars for foreign aid is often stolen or wasted to no good purpose.
President Trump supplies ( Obama embargoed this type of lethal defensive aid so it did not come from him) a high tech $10,000 night vision optic to Ukraine and it just gets wasted or stolen and sold for a song on the black market
The guy will probably end up selling his new night vision scope for a case of cigarettes and it will be bought by al Qaeda/ISIS.
Thats how our foreign aid is used and abused, even that which is not stolen by kleptocrats
Yep, AK to picatini mounts are cheap and easily available, that’s my point.
And yes, this whining bum will sell everything given to him and on a cheap.
Aside from the complete bs, buzzfeed makes the Ukraine sound like an African nation.
The aid was delayed for what, a couple months at most. The article was written recently and makes it sound like they still haven’t gotten it....a lie. They claim that countless people died because of the delay...I find that hard to believe. Why doesn’t the author ask what the Ukrainians feel about Obama who provided ZERO military aid.